And yet that's exactly what it did, along with a not-as-unexpected Best Actor – Drama win for Rami Malek, something that he could repeat at next month's Oscars (although Vice's Christian Bale will have a say in that).

But could Bohemian Rhapsody also now be the frontrunner for the biggest Oscar prize of all?

Before we delve into the stats, it's worth noting that Bohemian Rhapsody will almost certainly be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.

The biopic has been nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, alongside Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Crazy Rich Asians and A Star Is Born. On the whole, this recognition generally leads to a Best Picture nomination. Add in the Golden Globes win and the movie is pretty much guaranteed a Best Picture nomination.

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However, given the split categories at the Golden Globes of Drama and Musical or Comedy, a win in either category can't guarantee an Oscar Best Picture win as, at the latter awards, the categories aren't split. Furthermore, the Oscars have also been known to completely blank both Globes winners with their Best Picture winner.

The winners of both Globes categories are generally awarded with a nomination for Best Picture, but in the past ten years, only five have gone on to land the big Oscar prize to go with their Globes triumph:

2009 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Slumdog Millionaire*

2010 - The Hangover, Avatar

2011 - The Kids Are All Right, The Social Network

2012 - The Artist*, The Descendants

2013 - Les Misérables, Argo*

2014 - American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave*

2015 - The Grand Budapest Hotel, Boyhood

2016 - The Martian, The Revenant

2017 - La La Land, Moonlight*

2018 - Lady Bird, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

(* – won Best Picture at that year's Oscars)

So history doesn't guarantee Oscar glory for either Bohemian Rhapsody or Green Book (the surprise Musical or Comedy winner ahead of The Favourite and Vice), but they will be in the mix at least.

What's more, there's another obstacle for Bohemian Rhapsody to overcome in the form of Alfonso Cuarón's Roma. The critically-acclaimed Netflix drama wasn't eligible for Best Motion Picture – Drama as, according to Globe rules, movies in that category have to be English-Language. However, it still went home with two Globes wins for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director for Cuarón.

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It's not yet clear how the Academy will treat Roma as there is still some industry snobbery towards Netflix movies; even Steven Spielberg doesn't think they should be eligible for the Oscars.

But Roma has made so much noise that if the Oscars were to ignore it completely or to just include it as Best Foreign Language Film, it would look weird. That it's directed by Cuarón (who won Best Director for Gravity) adds to the belief that, despite it being a Netflix movie, Roma will feature heavily in the nominations and land a Best Picture nod.

So Roma will provide stiff competition for Bohemian Rhapsody, although Roma will have its own issue to overcome. No foreign language movie has ever won Best Picture at the Oscars (unless you count The Artist which is largely silent), but you'd still favour Roma over Bohemian Rhapsody if they were drawn together.

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A large part of this is that the voting pools for both award ceremonies are drastically different. Only 90-odd members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association vote for the Golden Globes, compared to the Oscars pool of almost 8,000, so it's no surprise that they disagree at times on their big prizes.

Even after its Golden Globes wins, Bohemian Rhapsody is still only fourth favourite to win Best Picture odds-wise, behind Roma, A Star Is Born and Green Book. It might've rocked the worldwide box office, but it's rare that box office grosses translate to Oscars glory and the other three favourites just feel more like Best Picture winners.

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Of course, momentum can be key in the awards race, so if Bohemian Rhapsody lands the SAG cast award, then we may have to reassess those odds. At this moment in time though, it feels like it'll take a kind of magic for Bohemian Rhapsody to land the big Oscar prize.

The 91st Academy Awards will take place at the Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2019.

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